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Description
The initiative intends to address, through an applied research outlook, the interation between musical performance and artificial intelligence (AI). Technology can expand and foster creative approaches, namely in the context of improvisatory and experimental pratices, but the complexity of interfaces is often only mastered by specialists.
It will be launch a forum of discussion and collaboration addressing the development and testing of technoloical/AI applications that will be freely available to professional and amateur musicians.
The tasks will lead to the development of resources and
Summary of the results
The outcomes and contacts developed through this partnership have demonstrated its pertinence through the involvement of students from both countries and from different social backgrounds, making available for them accessible music technologies that are normally extremely expensive, thus reducing economic and social disparities. A bilateral relations through the promotion of collaborative and sustainable work; the joint results are a first approach for a collaboration that will surely extend in time, as more initiatives within the context of the Erasmus+ programme are already being planned. This partnership is implementing a forum of discussion and collaboration addressing the development and testing of technological applications and expressive AI augmentations of performance, which, contrarily to resources developed by the music industry, will be freely available to professional and amateur musicians. Work meetings have been held between November 2019 and November 2021 in Aveiro, Porto, and Trondheim, and these visits have included workshops and lectures for students from UA, ESMAE and NTNU. The apps tested by the team during their joint work sessions have been presented at the “The Sound of Feedback, The Idea of Feedback in Sound” conference at Canterbury Christchurch University (UK), in January 2020, and at the Internacional Conference on Live Interfaces, in March 2020, in Trondheim, leading to the publication of an article by team members in the conference’s proceedings.